For the student suffering acute big-wide-world curiousity, a passport is the most useful tool to carry into this school year. Earth Sciences your thing? Why not travel to the Bering Sea to study its subduction zones? Want to know more about living under communism in Latin America? There’s a Cuba program for that. Still not […]
Jessica Linzey
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Masked brothers
The room is cold and brutal. The buckets, the knives, the wooden block, the floor-to-ceiling tile all suggest we’re in a butcher’s shop, but this feels somehow more sinister, dangerous. It feels like the sort of room where very bad things happen. It is just the effect Anthony Black was hoping for. Black is director […]
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Dance dance evolution
Though I can’t recall exactly when I last stomped my feet like this, I don’t think I’d be too far off in guessing that I was of tantrum-throwing age. Back then, I was probably sporting my size-two tap dance shoes for maximum impact; on this night, I’m stomping around in a pair of heels and, […]
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Michael Smith tops the food channel
It all started in 1997, when Michael Smith was running the kitchen at the Inn at Bay Fortune on PEI. In the garden overlooking the sea, gathering herbs for an evening’s service, the chef suddenly thought to himself, “this is so goddam perfect, we should make a television show.” Within weeks, Smith, local producer Gretha […]
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Halifax Pride Week 2008: Pride moves forward
Bob Fougere spent the better part of a decade working with the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, and was instrumental in bringing same-sex legislation to Nova Scotia. Benjie Nycum was a co-founder of Young Gay America and the associated YGA Magazine, promoting community among gay youth. He is currently working as an architect. Daniel MacKay […]
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Dal’s free-lab builds on real life
In the summer of 2004, a group of Dalhousie architecture students set up shop in Cheticamp where, under the guidance of a few profs and in collaboration with the local community, they spent two weeks designing and building a permanent outdoor children’s theatre. Le Theatre Petit Cercle went on to win a handful of prestigious […]
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Best Mussels
Editor’s note: With its latest Best Mussels win in 2008, Five Fishermen was elevated to the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. General Manager Gary McDonald is very proud of every one of the Best of Food awards his restaurant has won. And it’s won many. So many, in fact, that this year The Coast […]
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Outdoor adventures in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia boasts 7,500 kilometres of coastline, and almost that number of sea-adventure packages for the unsuspecting traveller to choose from. “Canada’s Ocean Playground,” indeed. But what about overland adventure? Head inland from any point along our coast and you’re liable to find yourself rubbing up against 300-million-year-old fossils at Joggins Cliffs, losing your boots […]
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Special ’ops
It’s been 40 years since a group of married Dalhousie University students founded the Halifax Student Housing Society and built what has been, and still is, the only student housing co-op in town—the 112-unit Peter Green Hall on Wellington Street. But if Bridget McConnell, Jason Pelley and Rachel Derrah have anything to do with it, […]